The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a provision that is designed to reduce helicopter noise in the airspace over Los Angeles County, including the San Fernando Valley, where residents have complained about the noise for years.
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) sent a letter to Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Huerta on Monday, saying that they have yet to see any demonstrated or significant progress toward reducing helicopter...

The cover of the invitation had three surfboard drawings on it. At first it wasn’t clear what surfboards had to do with the retirement party of Glendale’s City Atty. Scott Howard. On Friday, several hundred city employees, family, friends...

More than two years after the devastating Station fire, the U.S. Forest Service has yet to establish guidelines for firefighting night flights over rugged terrain in the Angeles National Forest — frustrating local officials who say the agency is...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has written to the leader of the California Senate, calling for the state to adopt legislation that would curb what she calls abusive lawsuits filed by private attorneys against small businesses for minor violations of disabled-access laws, and warning that if the state doesn’t act, she will.
Feinstein said some attorneys are filing "abusive lawsuits," and "coercive demand letters" to force small businesses to pay thousands of dollars over often-minor...

Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington -- Rep. Howard Berman hasn't had to fight for a job since Richard Nixon defeated George McGovern and M*A*S*H made its television debut.
That was 1972, when he won a state Assembly seat in his first race. Now the 70-year-old Democrat and House veteran, one of California's most enduring politicians, is girding for a potentially bruising battle with a congressional colleague.
New voting maps, drawn for the first time by a citizens commission instead of behind...

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When he was handed the reins of “Wednesday’s Child,” a television news segment featuring foster care children in need of adoption, William Wong prepared himself for a difficult 12 months.
One year was how long the social worker figured he would have to wait before requesting an assignment transfer from his employer, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.
A decade later, Wong, 40, has helped produce 425 TV segments that have resulted in more than 400...

For recovering addict Alexandra Datig, marijuana was a gateway drug that led her down a path of heartache and destruction.
Datig — an anti-drug activist who rallied against the marijuana legalization initiative Proposition 19 last year — relayed her downward spiral during a meeting Monday organized by the Crescenta Valley Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition, which has been working to combat drug and alcohol use among teens in the foothills.
“I was trying to find a place to fit in,...

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) was one of a growing chorus of lawmakers who took to the weekend political talk show circuit to call for stricter gun controls, improved school safety and enhanced mental health measures.
Appearing on MSNBC the day after the mass shooting at a school in Connecticut left 20 first-graders dead, Schiff said the massacre of 26 people — 20 of them first-graders who were shot multiple times — at Sandy Hook Elementary on Friday should serve as a “tipping point&...

Unable to get their "Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act" off the ground, the bill’s sponsors are implementing a Plan B to nudge federal officials, at the very least, to study ways to address neighborhood complaints about helicopter noise.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has inserted language into a Senate Appropriations Committee report that would direct the Federal Aviation Administration to explore possible solutions with neighborhood groups and helicopter operators. Rep.Howard...